selfupdate always updates macports bases even if the installed version is the latest

Fred Wright fw at fwright.net
Wed May 6 23:43:22 UTC 2026



On Wed, 6 May 2026, Ryan Carsten Schmidt wrote:

> The -p flag proceeds past a build failure and continues to build other 
> ports, even if they depend on the failing port. If so, and if you

Which of course is only true because -p erroneously implies -n, instead of 
behaving like make's -k, which keeps single errors from blowing the whole 
run without ignoring dependencies.  If you want the current -p behavior, 
you should have to specify both -p and -n.

Fred Wright


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